If the bridge is blown up with powerful weapons at the beginning of the battle, the German army will not be able to use this railway branch.
All Reichev could think about was the rockets his battalion was equipped to bombard the bridge.
His reconnaissance lasted until five o'clock in the afternoon, and the paratrooper battalion collected a lot of important information. After he returned to the battalion headquarters, he immediately tried to contact the main force.
In fact, during his absence, the battalion headquarters was already communicating with the regiment headquarters.
The messenger reported the current situation to Reichev who returned: "The large force has arrived at the southwest of Loev city at 2:30 this afternoon, about three kilometers away from the city. They dispersed in the forest, three
The battalion has arrived at the preset ambush location."
"Really? That's great. You try to contact us again immediately. I want to explain our investigation situation to Balzen!"
At the same time, Balzen had already set up a "crab formation" in the forest. The so-called "crab formation" just looks slightly like a crab. Its core area is the regiment headquarters, where Balzen and his directly affiliated troops are stationed.
Most of the baggage was also placed here. They were located due west of the city, and the officers and soldiers also formed a three-kilometer wide front.
The Voroshitin Battalion of the 1st Regiment of the 284th Division detoured back to the north of the city, where they set up an ambush in the woods and formed a wide formation.
284 belongs to Yevgeny of the Second Regiment. They are ambushing in the south of the city. Because the Dnieper River is to the east, their formation is quite compact.
Because the northern part of the city was where the Soviet army was under the greatest fortification pressure, Balzen detached another company to help Voroshitin defend. In the end, the Soviet army's formation on the right bank of the river was like a crab opening its big pair of arms.
The pliers can hold the entire city of Loev in its arms.
Balzen is actually very busy now, and his current location will probably become a long-term camp for future sieges.
Therefore, after the soldiers stopped, they picked up the accompanying shovels at their assigned positions and began to dig trenches. All of them were ordered to strictly follow infantry drills, so the trenches were ultimately determined to be no shallower than 1.5 meters.
This is a big project. Although the soldiers are still very tired, in order for the battle to proceed smoothly, everyone can only continue to work hard.
Balzen wanted to maintain the morale of the soldiers, so he also picked up a shovel and joined in this necessary and arduous work. Until the communications soldier ran to the scene of his work carrying the radio on his back and handed over the headphones.
Balzen took the earphones and directly heard Reichev's plain language, which was only separated by a river.
"Hey! I think you shouldn't be so messy without complying with the confidentiality regulations!" Balzen accused in disappointment.
"Don't worry! The Germans won't be able to detect it! Besides, even if they detect it, it doesn't matter!"
"Bah! You are really optimistic. Now tell me, what important information have you observed? How many people are there in the enemy? What is their firepower?"
"I was about to report this to you! How about it? Wouldn't it be faster to translate the code than to have a direct conversation?"
At this point, Reichev stopped talking nonsense and directly reported on the investigation situation of the afternoon according to his notebook.
The two parties communicating are basically operating huge wireless walkie-talkies. Not only can they communicate quickly with each other, they can even hold discussions.
Balzen not only learned that the German army was using the Soviet railway system, but also knew that these railways had signs of damage, which also showed that the German army's road construction skills were also very good. His large forces had not yet launched an attack on Los Angeles.
Yev's investigation, and therefore Reichev's investigation report is crucial.
Intelligence showed that the German army had strong defenses on the railway bridge, and even built concrete-reinforced fortresses and simple machine gun fortresses made of multiple sandbags. This situation made Balzen very worried.
"Okay, I will contact the headquarters immediately about these situations. We have to listen to the commander's analysis." Balzen replied.
"Okay, regarding tomorrow's battle, who are you sure will take the first action?"
"Action first? Tomorrow's actions have been studied by us here, regardless of priority. Originally, I had to inform you later, but since you asked, I will explain it now."
Balzen and others had already made a plan, and the time to launch the attack was set at seven o'clock in the morning. No matter what time the sun rose, the enemy would definitely get up at seven o'clock in the morning, and they would definitely appear on the streets of the city.
The Soviet army had no intention of launching the Urla Charge. The troops would only use artillery bombardment to pin the enemy inside the city to declare that the Soviet army had surrounded the city.
Reichev understood what he meant and asked: "Since there is no priority, we can attack freely?"
"Yes! By tomorrow morning, our gunboats will also be able to arrive at the combat position. Like the rest of the army, all of your troops will use artillery fire to attack, and the precision shooters will eliminate as many enemy exposed personnel as possible. That's all."
"In that case, can I use the Catfish Rocket Launcher tomorrow?"
Reichev's question made Balzen very puzzled. Before setting off, everyone had studied and decided that rocket launchers were a trump card and should not be used unless necessary.
Balzen immediately asked: "Bazooka? Do you want to blow up the city?"
"No! I am planning to blow up the enemy's bridge! I think you have also noticed that the train is passing through this area. The enemy is using the train to transport materials plundered from our land. This cannot continue like this. I am asking you for help. I plan
Try to blow up the railway bridge tomorrow!"
"are you serious?!"
"I was serious!"
Seeing Reichev's resolute attitude, Balzen hesitated a little. He quickly said: "This matter must be decided by the commander!"
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The communications troops accompanying the army recorded all the information, and then, under Balzen's instruction, sent a report to the Blacksmith Village.
On the other hand, Yang Mingzhi, Yevlov and others resolutely stayed in the headquarters and continued to receive telegrams from the front line.
Where have the troops arrived? How many non-combat casualties have there been? How much food has been consumed? The headquarters all know this.
It was the latest information that came, which also shocked Yang Mingzhi.
"The enemy actually didn't even let go of that railway branch line. Not only were they using it, but they were using it very frequently?" Yang Mingzhi originally planned that after the city was finally captured, the railway bridge would become a guerrilla republic on both sides of the Dnieper River.
The most important carrier of travel, since the German army is making full use of it, the German army will definitely not be satisfied with its changing hands.
Because the information did not come all at once, the first thing that arrived was the information about the frequent use of trains by the German army on railway branch lines.
Yang Mingzhi and others immediately started researching this, and everyone present quickly reached a consensus - since the German army is already using it, blow it up!
"The Germans must have refused us the use of the bridge. We blew it up so that no one could use it. Obviously, in terms of losses, the German traffic suffered the most serious losses. We still used the original ferry to cross the river. Not only did we not lose anything, but we also harvested a lot of waste.
Iron! We can make more artillery shells to blow up the enemy!" Yang Mingzhi's argument left no one with any regrets.
Immediately afterwards, the latest translated message was sent to the command headquarters. Yang Mingzhi took a closer look and saw that it was Reichev's request. He just glanced at it and immediately burst into laughter, then took the message and handed it over directly.
In the hands of the paratrooper brigade commander Tepunov.
"Look! Your paratrooper battalion commander has the same idea as ours! He plans to blow up the bridge!"
"Really?!" Tepunov looked at it carefully and immediately asked: "But he plans to bomb the bridge with rocket launchers. What do you think?"
"What do I think? What do you think?"
"This... I think that rocket bombardment can only blow up the structure if it hits the key points! Even if the rocket launcher can complete this job, it must hit the bridge piers!"
"I didn't think about this carefully!" Yang Mingzhi held his chin and thought about it, then suddenly snapped his fingers: "Just like this, we order the paratrooper battalion to bombard the enemy's bridgehead with rocket launchers when they take action tomorrow morning, and the troops will complete the occupation.
Then, they buried explosives on the spot and blew up the bridge deck!"
No one raised any fundamental objections. Yang Mingzhi reviewed Balzen's telegram again and made no demands for the offensive planned for the summer solstice.
The order from the headquarters was quickly transmitted back, and Balzen and Rychev received the precise tasks they needed to implement.
All tasks will be launched after seven o'clock in the morning on June 22. There will be no sneak attacks in the early morning, but there will be extremely cumbersome Soviet offensives the next day.